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REWahoo said:
We will now both be voting in person at an early voting site, surrendering our unused absentee ballots to the election judge.
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A few years ago I did that... The election judge gave me "what for" and I'll never forget "the lesson"... Why I asked? The time/cost/trouble of sending out mail in ballots and then folks not using them.... Well EXCUSE ME!
 
RunningBum said:
Dropped my ballot off today. I had earlier expressed concerns that an unmanned box (thinking like an outdoor US postal box) would be subject to vandalism, like someone pouring water or worse into the slot, ruining any ballots in there. But the box I went to was directly across from a manned table for early voting, so it's very secure. Sounds like other places are like this too. Glad to see it.
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Spoke too soon.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/10/19/ballot-box-fire-arson-vote-election/

An outdoor ballot box sitting outside a public library caught fire. Arson is suspected. There were ballots inside even though it was 8pm. So much for the hope that all ballot boxes would be secure.
 
Car-Guy said:
A few years ago I did that... The election judge gave me "what for" and I'll never forget "the lesson"... Why I asked? The time/cost/trouble of sending out mail in ballots and then folks not using them.... Well EXCUSE ME!
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Since we tried unsuccessfully to use them, I hope to avoid any such unpleasantness. Heck, we will gladly hand them our completed ballots if they will accept them (they won't). But if the election judge does give me any lip he/she will get a "boatload" of feedback from me including, "How dare you lecture me about your failure to provide clear and concise instructions." Concluding, of course, with a thank you for serving as an election judge and you have a nice day now... :)
 
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I voted this morning in the suburbs near Chicago. I requested a ballot by mail, completed it and securely placed it in the drop box inside the early voting location while the elections judges watched.
To my surprise, there were only a few people in line to vote so I could have voted as I had always done with an electronic ballot. I requested a mail in ballot this year because I was concerned that some of the voting locations would be shut down with the rising virus numbers that are being reported.
 
I mailed in mine about 3 weeks ago or so from Canada.
 
REWahoo said:
The instructions that came with absentee ballot are almost overwhelming (see photo - note each of the four pictured items has the same information printed on the reverse in English/Spanish). All that small print and excessive detail is bound to lead to confusion and improper completion/submission of ballots. It did for us.
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I got the same first page, the one in the upper left in your pic. But mine's a third-generation xerox, and it's tilted. I also got a "Information About Returning Your Carrier Envelope - November 3, 2020" page. It is approximately a sixth-generation xerox, tilted, and many of the letters of text have filled-in due to it's long heritage of a copy of a copy of a... I read and re-read all of it many times, in different sittings just to be sure (?) what they meant. I think I got it figured out... I hope... too late now if not.

Last night on the local news, a talking head said that some ballots are being rejected because the signature on the outside envelope did not match the signature on the ballot... What? What signature on ballot? I swear my ballot said make no marks anywhere but in the selected ovals, do not put your name on it, etc. etc. Maybe they weren't talking about my county but they should have specified which county that was from, we have a lot of them here!

Oh, and I found this humorous - a "List Of Declared Write-In Candidates" was also included in my ballot instructions. I guess write-in can't be really a write-in!
 
Not sure where you folks are with the hard to understand absentee ballot instructions. I voted absentee in NC, the instructions were well written and very clear to me. However, I understand that there are many many NC ballots that were completed incorrectly and have to be redone in order to count.
 
Telly, as I understand it (that's a big qualifier) the signature on the outside of the carrier envelope has to "match" the signature on your voter registration or it will be rejected. I agree there was no ballot signature mentioned on any of those forms.
 
REWahoo said:
Telly, as I understand it (that's a big qualifier) the signature on the outside of the carrier envelope has to "match" the signature on your voter registration or it will be rejected. I agree there was no ballot signature mentioned on any of those forms.
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That's the way it is for us.
 
Voted today in person, early voting.

Yes, they look at your DL signature here in FL and make sure it matches (at least always have done in my district)...

Why yes...the piece of paper I signed with a pen 15 years ago is just like the one I'm doing today, with my finger on a tablet, through a hole in a plexiglass divider.
 
REWahoo said:
Telly, as I understand it (that's a big qualifier) the signature on the outside of the carrier envelope has to "match" the signature on your voter registration or it will be rejected. I agree there was no ballot signature mentioned on any of those forms.
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WHEW! Thanks!

In your list of 1001 reasons not to move to this state, please add "Mail-in Ballot Instructions are a copy of a copy of a copy summed to infinity of poorly-written instructions by someone who never planned to use it themselves, or was really a misappropriated book report done by a jr. high kid on the way to [-]failure[/-] social promotion"

In the end, only one mail-in ballot across the whole state will actually pass all the tests to be counted, but alas, it will arrive 10 minutes too late.
 
Voted in-person today - 8th of early voting. About 10-12 in front of us with 4 clerk's office folks processing. Took 5 minutes or so to get ballot. What was new to me was the ballot being printed off right there once they knew which ballot we should get. Previously during election day voting, ballots had been pre-printed & distributed to each precinct.
 
gerntz said:
Voted in-person today - 8th of early voting. About 10-12 in front of us with 4 clerk's office folks processing. Took 5 minutes or so to get ballot. What was new to me was the ballot being printed off right there once they knew which ballot we should get. Previously during election day voting, ballots had been pre-printed & distributed to each precinct.
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We ran into the same thing, except there wasn't really any 'line' to speak of. In and out in 10 minutes. I was a bit surprised to be tapping a screen for all my selections, *then* having the device print out my ballot which was then fed through a scanner to count the votes.


Seemed like a lot of extra steps, but it worked OK. Although my ballot jammed when printing. Not too many years ago, I would have been the guy to call to fix that problem...
 
Did drive through ballot 10/16. Kind of a pia but it was better than one at a time so each of us could keep an eye on mil. However it could easily be rectified by making sure the first car in line received their ballots............
 
We voted. It was painless - Registered to vote at our new state 9/10 (we moved to WA recently), received voter pamphlet 9/30, received ballots on 10/16, dropped them of at the post office red ballot box yesterday (a drive through).
 
dixonge said:
We ran into the same thing, except there wasn't really any 'line' to speak of. In and out in 10 minutes. I was a bit surprised to be tapping a screen for all my selections, *then* having the device print out my ballot which was then fed through a scanner to count the votes.


Seemed like a lot of extra steps, but it worked OK. Although my ballot jammed when printing. Not too many years ago, I would have been the guy to call to fix that problem...
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Only thing we touched is electronic signature pad which worker cleaned after each person signed. Blank ballot is printed & then filled out via ink pen. They gave everyone a new cheap pen to use & keep.

Voting in-person feels so much more real to us plus I see the ballot recorded - nothing between me & the vote.
 
harllee said:
Not sure where you folks are with the hard to understand absentee ballot instructions. I voted absentee in NC, the instructions were well written and very clear to me. However, I understand that there are many many NC ballots that were completed incorrectly and have to be redone in order to count.
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:confused: Less than 0.84% rejected, only 1 of every 119, sounds like tremendous success to me. And some/many of the rejected ballots will be corrected and counted in time. IMO NC is doing a great job handling voting this year.
Just as important as filling out your mail-in ballot is returning it and making sure it is counted! Across North Carolina thousands of ballots have not been counted.

This data comes from the U.S. Elections Project, a site compiling and analyzing information from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. According to their findings, 613,879 mail ballots have been returned. A total of those returned 5,134 have been rejected. That equates to just less than 1% of ballots.

If there is an issue with a ballot, the county board of elections will alert the voter. If an issue does arise and the voter is unable to successfully cast an absentee ballot, that voter may still vote during in-person early voting or on Election Day.
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https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/n...atus/275-451bcd14-3467-441d-b617-04c9de7eb845
 
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After a little more investigation I learned not placing my absentee ballot into the inner envelope before inserting it into the carrier (mailing) envelope does NOT invalidate the ballot here in TX. So, DW and I will mail our "naked" ballots today. :)
 
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